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Tom Hanks on SNL · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question in for our American mama's. Dear mamas,
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  Speaker 1: did you see Tom Hanks making you look like all
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  Speaker 1: Trump supporters are racist on SNL's reunion show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's Alma mama, she said.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now our American Mama. Terry Needvill, Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Burlison is out and a bounce. I did watch the
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  Speaker 1: the the Saturday Night Live fiftieth anniversary thing Joe Pisco
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  Speaker 1: was he was attending. I was wanting to see what
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  Speaker 1: they're going to do with Joe since Joe and I
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  Speaker 1: were You know, I do Morning Weather for Joe every
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  Speaker 1: day in New York City now and you know, nothing
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  Speaker 1: you know to brag about, but Joe and I are
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  Speaker 1: now best friends, so.
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  Speaker 3: You think so? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Did they show him once in the two hours there
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  Speaker 1: was he was in the background of the audience. If
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  Speaker 1: you weren't looking for him, you're going to miss him.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was I think that's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a snub since he was like half of the
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  Speaker 1: duo that saves Saturday Night Live in the night in
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  Speaker 1: the early nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 4: You know, do you think that has anything to do
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  Speaker 4: with his conservative I.
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  Speaker 1: Think it has everything to do with his conservative politics.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I think Joe Biscopol thinks that
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  Speaker 1: he's not invited to those things, he's not part of
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  Speaker 1: the in crowd because of his politics.
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  Speaker 3: Moreover, I bet he's right.
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  Speaker 4: Is very obvious who they favor at those shows.
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  Speaker 1: So, speaking of Tom Hanks gets up and he does
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  Speaker 1: a skit on Black Jeopardy and he's wearing a Maga
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  Speaker 1: hat and Keenan Thompson, who's playing the host of the
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  Speaker 1: game show, he gets a Tom Hanks gets a question
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  Speaker 1: right and Keen Thompson comes over to shake his hand,
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  Speaker 1: and Tom Hanks was oh when he puts his hands
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  Speaker 1: up and backs away and is afraid to shake his hands. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: when you first saw that or when you first heard
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  Speaker 1: about that, what did you think, because it's being portrayed
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  Speaker 1: one way I think in the media.
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  Speaker 4: Well, actually, that was the one clip that I saw.
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  Speaker 4: I went to X. I have not watched it, and
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  Speaker 4: it's why I didn't go back and watch the rest
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  Speaker 4: of Yeah, because that club that clip trigger something inside
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  Speaker 4: of me because if you watch, you know Tom Hanks
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  Speaker 4: has the Maga hat on. He does he is talking
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  Speaker 4: you know he's ultra Christian Bible thumping, and then whenever
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  Speaker 4: the host comes over to shake his hand, he backs away, like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to shake your hand because you're black.
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  Speaker 3: Well he's using a Southern accent.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, he's dumbing down his vocabulary for like pretending
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  Speaker 4: to be us. But when he did that, I thought,
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  Speaker 4: that's so fake. We love the blacks and whites love
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  Speaker 4: each other. That I'm around, I don't see anybody shuddering whenever,
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  Speaker 4: Like if I go to shake a black man's hand,
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  Speaker 4: I don't see him shuddering, and vice versa. That doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 4: So I thought, here they are at esen L once
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  Speaker 4: again trying to pretend like the conservative Maga crew are racist, bigoted, dumb,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Bible thumping. We don't know what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 4: and they're not willing to shake hands with the black host.
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  Speaker 3: So he initially had a slightly different reaction. I watched it.
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  Speaker 1: At the time I watched, I watched what was going on,
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  Speaker 1: and when I first saw it last night, I guess
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  Speaker 1: it was last night I saw it and I went ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that didn't land. And the reason was because I remember
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  Speaker 1: seeing the original when Tom Hanks was first on the
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  Speaker 1: Black Jeopardy skit back in twenty sixteen, and they did
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  Speaker 1: this with oh man, I've forgotten his name, may Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they did was Addie Murphy this this Saturday Night. But
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  Speaker 1: I had originally seen it with the I'm forgetting the
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  Speaker 1: actor who played Black Panther, and he came as the
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  Speaker 1: Black Panther character and he was there's some stuff in
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  Speaker 1: that skit that's really pretty funny. But when Tom Hanks
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  Speaker 1: went on in twenty sixteen, he's wearing the Maga hat
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  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen dress the same way he was his time.
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  Speaker 1: And you what you actually saw at the time was
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  Speaker 1: the black contestants in the Black Coast were racist against
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  Speaker 1: Tom Hanks. They were like, Okay, are you sure you
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  Speaker 1: belong here? I mean, this is Black Jeopardy. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is right for you. And
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  Speaker 1: then when he gets a question right, they're stunned, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh. And I thought, what as now at
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  Speaker 1: the time in twenty sixteen was really doing was poking
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  Speaker 1: fun of the fact that there are poor white people
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  Speaker 1: and poor black people who had the exact same viewpoint
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  Speaker 1: on things, which was prescient because if you look at
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  Speaker 1: the way the election turned out in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: eight years later, he had a lot of poor black
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  Speaker 1: people voting the exact same way poor white people were voting,
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  Speaker 1: which was for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I just thought that was interesting. And at first
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  Speaker 1: when they were doing the skit and he was getting
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  Speaker 1: along and they're like, Okay, you're doing great, and then
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  Speaker 1: Keenan he gets a question, right, and Keen was like
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  Speaker 1: very excited. It comes out and says, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: It goes to shake his hands, and the Tom Hanks
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  Speaker 1: character is startled, like, oh my gosh, there's a black
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  Speaker 1: man coming at me. What I do wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it didn't play that way in the abridged version.
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  Speaker 4: Last night, well, in full transparency with our listeners, you
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  Speaker 4: and I have this conversation, so you pulled it up
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  Speaker 4: for me to see.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I wonder to see if you had the same reaction.
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  Speaker 4: And I am stunned because I saw the one. When
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  Speaker 4: you showed me the first one, I thought, my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: you're right, You're right, Stephen. This they were basically trying
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  Speaker 4: to say, we're kind of all into this together. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't see that first one I never knew
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  Speaker 4: about that first one, so I was all triggered. Not really,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to watch it because I thought they
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  Speaker 4: were portraying us as racist, until you said, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 4: if you go back in time and look at where
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  Speaker 4: this stemmed from, it actually isn't racist.
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  Speaker 3: So if anything, it was racist against us.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you know, it was showing that there were black people,
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  Speaker 1: racist against toms.
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  Speaker 4: And here i am in twenty twenty five and I'm
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  Speaker 4: watching CNN and I'm watching their guest and I'm watching
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  Speaker 4: Democratic leaders come on and say things about the white
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  Speaker 4: race that is so prejudiced. It is so discriminatory, it
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  Speaker 4: is so mean spirited. And I always say, man, what
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  Speaker 4: if you turn that around? You had a white Republican
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  Speaker 4: that was saying this about the entire black race, right?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I look at joy Reid, you know she
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  Speaker 4: says some things. I'm thinking, what kind of white host
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  Speaker 4: could say that about the black race? So here I
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  Speaker 4: am we should right? Never ever is it? Should?
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  Speaker 1: It be?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? So that's why I felt triggered, But no one
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  Speaker 4: where it stands from. When you explained that, I thought, ah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it just didn't. It didn't land because they didn't
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  Speaker 3: have the setup.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you like to ask American Mama was a question,
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  Speaker 3: Terry Nanderville, thank you so much. Kimberly bur listen, we'll
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  Speaker 3: be back.